| 1. Trying to put the enigmatic producer Ghostlife into words is no easy feat, for a start very few people have ever met him. Many people will, of course, fill your head with tall Ghostlife tales; what hat he favours on a Wednesday, his love of the Dewey Decimal system, his aversion to large peas |
| 2. Time to call bullshit on all these theories. Best way to describe Ghostlife is Kyser Soze with a keyboard, minus all the criminal bits, an anonymous tactician with an ear for a woozy beat. He may indeed have been the source of the above tall tales, writer of his own fiction if you will |
| 3. It is perhaps then fitting that he should be pulled towards another artist who spent much of his career sowing the seeds of doubt in regard to his own identity, the much-lamented MF Doom. Respected rapper Doom not only hid his face from the public but was also well known for releasing music under a raft of different monikers adding further mystery to a canon of work that had reached a legendary status before his untimely death in 2020, and after |
| 4. In this instance it is Doom’s collaborations with Madlib, resulting in the 2004 ground-breaking album Madvillainy, that got Ghostlife’s remix reflex twitching |
| 5. He decided to further ramp up the subterfuge and remix some choice cuts from ’s interpretation of the record |
| 6. For those who don’t know, , led by saxophonist Rob Mitchell, are based on the classic jazz big band instrumentation of saxes, trumpets and trombones and features the cream of the north’s jazz scene |
| 7. Tracklist: |
| 8. 1.01 - - Raid |
| 9. 1.02 - - Fancy Clown |
| 10. 1.03 - - Eye |
| 11. 1.04 - - Accordion |
| 12. 1.05 - - Curls |
| 13. 1.06 - - Bistro |
| 14. 1.07 - - Borrowed Time |
| 15. 1.08 - - Fire in the Hole |
| 16. 1.09 - - Figaro |
| 17. 1.10 - - Fluid |
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